Posted on 01/17/2022 9:49:38 PM PST by lowbridge
California lawmakers unveiled a new bill at the beginning of the year that would establish a single-payer health care system – an ambitious plan that would be funded by nearly doubling the state's already-high taxes.
A new analysis from the Tax Foundation, a non-partisan group that generally advocates for lower taxes, found that the proposed constitutional amendment would increase taxes by roughly $12,250 per household in order to fund the first-of-its-kind health care system. In all, the tax increases are designed to raise an additional $163 billion per year, which is more than California raised in total tax revenue any year before the pandemic.
The proposal includes three main revenue raisers, according to Jared Walczak, a fellow at the Tax Foundation: Higher income taxes on wealthy Americans, a payroll tax on certain employees' wages for large companies, and a new gross receipts tax.
Under the bill, the top marginal rate on wage income would soar to 18.05% – well above the median top marginal rate of 5.3% and the state's existing rate of 12.3%. There would be an 18-bracket system, with higher taxes kicking in for individuals earning more than $149,509.The highest rate would apply to those who earn more than $2,484,121.
Here's a closer look at how the tax system would be structured, based on individual income:
2.25%: $0
3.25%: $9,324
5.25%: $22,106
7.25%: 34,891
9.25%: $48,434
10.25%: $49,900
11.55%: $61,213
12.05%: $299,509
12.55%: $299,509
13.05%: N/A (for married couples, this applies to income of $599,013)
13.55%: $312,865
14.05%: N/A (for married couples, this applies to income of $625,371)
14.55%: $375,220
15.05%: $599,013
16.05%: $625,368
17.05%: $1,000,000
17.30%: $1,299,500
18.05%: $2,484,121
California would also expand the payroll tax paid by employees who earn more than $49,990 in annual income if they work for a company that has more than
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In other news, California has decided that ANYONE who works for a living should leave the state, and is annoyed that they’re not already leaving fast enough.
Well; that ought to go over like a salted fart in a peanut shell!
Then they wonder why people who can actually afford it are leaving the state!
Newsome just announced last week that ALL illegals would be given free healthcare in the state THIS I’d how the bastard is going to afford it!! I can see a mass exodus from CA.
Great news! Let the tsunami of moves begin! Let’s get the conservatives OUT!
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SECTION 1. (a) The following state taxes are imposed as follows, subject to being operative as provided in Section 4, for the purpose of funding comprehensive universal single-payer health care coverage and a health care cost control system for the benefit of every resident of the state, and reserves deemed necessary to ensure payment:(1) An annual excise tax is hereby imposed upon a qualified business, as defined by the Legislature, for the privilege of doing business in this state at a rate of 2.3 percent of the gross receipts of that qualified business minus the first two million dollars ($2,000,000) in annual gross receipts of that business.
(2) (A) A payroll tax is hereby imposed on every employer who pays wages or other compensation to 50 or more resident employees for services performed either within or without this state at a rate of 1.25 percent of the aggregate amount of wages or other compensation paid by the employer to the resident employees.
(B) In addition to the payroll tax described in subparagraph (A), a payroll tax is hereby imposed on every employer who pays wages or other compensation to resident employees for services performed within or without this state at a rate of 1 percent of the aggregate amount of wages or other compensation paid by the employer to the resident employees in excess of forty-nine thousand nine hundred dollars ($49,900) per resident employee.
(C) The employer shall for each payroll period deduct and withhold from compensation paid to resident employees the amounts of tax imposed under subparagraph (B).
(3) (A) In addition to any other tax imposed under the Personal Income Tax Law (Part 10 (commencing with Section 17001) of Division 2 of the Revenue and Taxation Code), there is hereby imposed for each taxable year upon the entire taxable income of every resident of this state whose income is subject to tax under Section 17041 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, a State Personal Income CalCare Tax in the following amounts and at the following marginal rates upon the amount of taxable income computed for the taxable year as if the resident were a resident of this state for the entire taxable year and for all prior taxable years for any carryover items, deferred income, suspended losses, or suspended deductions:
For taxable income:......................The marginal tax is:
$149,509 but not over $299,508.......0.5% of the taxable income
$299,509 but not over $599,012.......1% of the taxable income
$599,013 but not over $1,299,499.....1.5% of the taxable income
$1,299,500 but not over $2,484,120..1.75% of the taxable income
$2,484,121 and above...................2.5% of the taxable income
Employers are already fleeing CA and this will just accelerate their exodus. This is a huge job killer.
And leaving California to avoid its high rate is a crime punishable by 10 years in prison, right?
Will this end private health insurance in California?
.......arguably this is a good thing. If passed and put in to practice it’s effects will be devastating to California. America will have it’s own little Venezuela on the West Coast that will HELP educate the rest of America on Socialism better than all the books and speeches and videos in the world.
Maybe. If you are the employer, you will be forced to pay the state of california for your employees healthcare. Outside of very highly compensated jobs (and unions) I would expect the employer to tell employees to get their healthcare from the state system. For higher wage earners, they might still be able to demand employer provided insurance. Of course these higher wage earners will also pay extra income tax for a program they will never use.
I expect to see carve outs for politicians, teachers and other unions, just like obamacare. Platinum healthcare insurance for me, but not for thee.
Will the last person leaving CA please remember to turn the lights off.
They really want California to have two classes - those on welfare or who work in the underground economy on one hand and the super rich on the other.
CA uses the same deductions as the feds, so tax on the first $12,400 is zero (for single, $24,800 for married). The next $9,324 is taxed at 1%, and this proposed law would add another 1.25%. The current 1% is usually eliminated or reduced for low income people by other credits, but the new 1.25% is not an income tax, so can’t be reduced by credits or deductions.
Thanks for the clarification!
This may be because Medicare is broke and will run out of money on 2028, along with Social Security. And Congress wants to spend trillions on renewable energy but allow Social Security to die of no funding.
Why not triple the Tax? Good little Liberal Billionaires can pay for it. Next, make it legal to leave the state. Close the borders “For Covid” and force an exit tax on all who attempt to leave. In a year the only growth industries will be Private security guards and Cemeteries.
of 2.3 percent of the gross receipts
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Groceries operate on ~1% profit margin. Now they will be on -1.3%?
Looks like this has to be paid even if the business is loosing money! Crazy!
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